The Sea Was Angry That Day...

It's clear from a variety of sources that the hawkosphere is once again busy plotting its stab in the back rationalization of the looming defeat of George W. Bush. The theory here is that rather than losing the election because his policies have made things worse, Bush lost because the press (known as "the mainstream media" to the semi-deranged and "the MSM" to those too far gone to even pray for) made it appear that things had gotten worse by, for example, reporting factual accounts of Bushian blundering letting nuclear material spread all over the world.

Clearly, the Kerry administration will have some ugly days ahead of it.

I do think, though, that the right's imminent descent into out-and-out nutjobbery will ultimately do it little good. It's oft-forgot in the recitation of liberal moaning, but the upshot of the last great spurt of conservative political madness -- the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton -- led merely to surprising midterm gains for the Democrats. That particular event, moreover, actually did involve a Democrat behaving badly so to some extent it damaged both sides. The right's braying about the vast global conspiracy to turn the US of A over to the tender mercies of al-Qaeda is just going to look -- and rightly so -- silly and demented in light of the fact that a Kerry Administration will not, in fact, lead to the imposition of sharia law in Kansas or whatever else it is Glenn Reynolds et. al. seem to fear.